Isa Noon For Wild Men example essay topic
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The words are by Kamala Das who was born in southern Malabar in 1934 and is one of India's most distinguished poets. She has written, "From every city I have lived I have remembered the noons in Malabar with an ache growing inside me, a homesickness". This setting, for soprano and piano trio, employs additive rhythm and instrumental doubling to capture something of the suppleness and richness of Indian music. It was first performed by Patrizia Rosario and Chamber Music Company at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival on 14 October 1997. This is a noon for beggars with whining Voices, a noon for men who come from hills With parrots in a cage and fortune cards, All stained with time, for brown kura va girls With old eyes, who read palms in light singsong Voices, for bangle-sellers who spread On the cool black floor those red and green and blue Bangles, all covered with the dust of roads, For all of them, whose feet, devouring rough Miles, grow cracks on the heels, so that when they Clambered up our porch, the noise was grating, Strange... This is a noon for strangers who part The window-drapes and peer in, their hot eyes Brimming with the sun, not seeing a thing in Shadowy rooms, and turn away and look So yearningly at the brick-l edged well. Thesis a noon for strangers with mistrust in Their eyes, dark, silent ones who rarely speak At all, so that when they speak, their voices Run wild, like jungle-voices. Yes, this isA noon for wild men, wild thoughts, wild love. To Be here, far away, is torture. Wild feet Stirring up the dust, this hot noon, at my Home in Malabar, and I so far away... Kamala Das.
